FALL 2022 EXHIBITIONS & PROGRAMS
2 3For program and event registration, call 519-336-8127 ext. 3231, or visit jnaag.ca. Art is for DonationsAdmissioneveryone.isfree.arewelcome. ADMISSION The gallery will be closed November 11, December 24, 25 and 31. NOTICE OF CLOSURE DATES 147 Lochiel Street Sarnia, Ontario N7T 0B4 519-336-8127jnaag.ca CONTACT US Sunday, Monday & Tuesday ....... Closed to Public Wednesday & Friday* ............ 11:00AM – 4:00PM Thursday ........................ 11:00AM – 8:30PM Saturday ........................ 11:00AM – 4:00PM *Open First Fridays September to December until 9PM GALLERY HOURS TABLE OF CONTENTS Exhibitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Adult Programs . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Art & ArtPrintmakingIdeas&Books Club Youth Program . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Art SchoolPodPrograms . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 In the Community . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Holiday Program . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Facebook /gallery.lambton Twitter @theJNAAG Instagram @jnaag eNews Register at jnaag.ca
Hope and Healing Canada
Included Teens:
Image Credit: Larry Towell, The Pear, Lambton County, Ontario (detail), 1983; gelatin silver print on photographic paper. From the collection of the Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery.
Category Winner: Place
Miranda Hurst, Age 14
Category Winner: Pets
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Kaira DeFreitas, Age 16
Emily Jahnke, Age 14
Ky Hopwood, Age 15
Learnevents.more by following #hopeandhealingcanada and visiting traceymae.com.
The #hopeandhealingcanada project, created by Métis artist Tracey-Mae Chambers, consists of a series of site-specific art installations across Canada. Each installation is temporary and meticulously created by Chambers using red yarn that is crochet, knit, and Thistied.ongoing
Category Winner: People
This project is in collaboration with the Lambton County Library.
Alexa Secord, Age 17
Madeline Lehrbass, Age 15
Ky Hopwood, Age 15
Ryleigh Siklosi, Age 16
Kaydence Scherer, Age 13
body of work is used to illustrate connections between Indigenous, Inuit, and Métis peoples with Canadians, while also broaching the subject of decolonization. The installation invites us to engage with the idea of connection, and how communities can move forward to heal and support one another through traumatic and life-altering
Raveena Guggal, Age 15
Overall & Category Winner: Things
August 5 – October 1, 2022
Art & Ideas: In Conversation with Tracey-Mae Chambers
Mercy Naus, Age 13
Ava Arndt, Age 17
Exhibitions
Award Winners:
Thursday, September 22 @ 7:00PM (see page 12 for details)
Artist Larry Towell and his work served as the inspiration for this community art initiative. In this exhibit, Towell’s photographs appear alongside a juried selection of replies submitted by teens from throughout Lambton County.
How can you tell a story through a photograph?
Dylan Hamilton, Age 17
Brady Long, Age 17
Tracey-Mae Chambers
Arden Mailhiot, Age 17
“We must remain hopeful to heal.”
Jairus Dowswell, Age 14
Jasmine Pole, Age 17
Perrin Langille, Age 17 Matthew McDonald, Age 17
Alexis Sitzes, Age 14
Myla Bell, Age 14
What does home feel like?
Emily Jahnke, Age 14
Lillian Carswell, Age 15
Skawennati makes art that addresses history, the future, and change from an Indigenous perspective. Her innovative new media projects include the online gallery / chat-space, and mixed-reality event, CyberPowWow (1997-2004); a paper doll / time-travel journal, Imagining Indians in the 25th Century (2001); and TimeTraveller™ (2008-2013), a multi-platform project featuring nine machinima episodes. Skawennati is represented by ELLEPHANT and her award-winning work is included in both public and private collections. Read more at jnaag.ca
Art & Ideas: Art, Avatars, and Outer Space
Opening First Friday, October 7 / 6:00–9:00PM
Thursday, October 13 @ 7:00PM (see page 12 for details)
In this exhibition, artist Skawennati (Mohawk, Turtle Clan) gathers a number of works which, together, trace a line from our place of origin somewhere in the heavens to the virtual realm, one of the newest territories on Earth. The line sometimes curves, sometimes becomes invisible, but along it are Onkwehonwe—Indigenous people—
This exhibition is curated by Matthew Ryan Smith.
October 7, 2022 – March 18, 2023
Skawennati, Falling Asleep (detail), 2017, Machinimagraph from She Falls for Ages inkjet print / impression jet d’encre, image courtesy of the artist
alive and kicking. From Skyworld to Cyberspace is a result of Skawennati’s continuous investigation of cultural construction, contemporary Indigenous self-representation in cyberspace, and of our relationships with the digital world.
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Members reception 7:00PM
Opening First Friday, October 7 / 6:00–9:00PM Members reception 7:00PM
Darla Fisher-Odjig walks through many worlds. As a visual artist, poet and registered therapist, she brings a soulful and heartfelt engagement that is both challenging and healing. Her lyrical paintings sweep the viewer into worlds both familiar and strange but always ground themselves in realities that cannot be denied.
Fisher-Odjig is a Lambton-based artist creating powerful paintings, sculptures and poems that reveal how colonization has impacted her life.
Beneath the Mask: Symbols as a Healing Phenomenon
Art & Ideas: Beneath the Mask with Darla Fisher-Odjig Thursday, October 27 @ 7:00PM (see page 13 for details)
Darla Fisher-Odjig, The Masquerade: The 60’s Scoop 2021–22, acrylic on canvas Image courtesy of the artist
Darla Fisher-Odjig
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October 7, 2022 – March 18, 2023
Darla Fisher-Odjig, The Inception 2021–22, acrylic on canvas Image courtesy of the artist
Re View is a series of exhibitions which act an extended celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery. The first exhibit in the series pulls visitors into the past to trace the building’s history and offers an opportunity to celebrate the artist that built the block, J. S Thom. Original Thom photographs are brought together with artifacts of the era to reconstruct the feeling of his historic photography studio. The first of many audio tours, scripted and voiced by gallery volunteers, will also be released to accompany the painting In Celebration of the New Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery by David Moore (image right).
Holland Paisley Collection, image courtesy of Lambton Archives 2022 21, 2023
Experience the Thom Block as it was in 1893 and help us imagine the future through our AR experience. Visit jnaag.ca for more!
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Members
Opening First Friday, November 4 / 6:00–9:00PM reception 7:00PM
Re View November 4,
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Art & Ideas
Thursday, November 17 @ 7:00PM
In withConversationDarlaFisher-Odjig
Learn how photographs have evolved over time including tips and tricks of how to preserve these memories for future generations. This lecture will share information about various types of photo damage including proper storage for photo collections.
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Thursday, November 24 @ 7:00PM
Art & Ideas Art & Ideas
Mallon brings his professional experience as a heritage planner to the conversation about the 1953 tornado and its impact on Sarnia’s commercial Victorian architecture and the subsequent urban renewal of the 50s and 60s. Discussion will focus on how the conservation of the Thom Block façade created a building that married the Victorian and modernist styles that define downtown Sarnia.
Thursday, October 27 @ 7:00PM
For program and event registration, call 519-336-8127 ext. 3231, or visit jnaag.ca.
In withConversationTracey-Mae Chambers
Thursday, September 22 @ 7:00PM
Free / In-person event at JNAAG Registration required
Free / In-person and online Registration required
This lecture will discuss how viewers experience artwork using their own lives and experiences, Indigenous Futurism, avatars, and outer space.
Art, Avatars, and Outer Space with Matthew Ryan Smith
Chambers will join us virtually to discuss her #hopeandhealingcanada project and share details about her installation at the Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery.
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Thursday, October 13 @ 7:00PM
Free / In-person event at JNAAG Registration required
Defining a Downtown with Jack Mallon
This series of presentations complements the current exhibits by drawing connections to themes found in the exhibition, and by featuring discussions with specific artists and experts. The Art & Ideas series is redesigned each season to entice creative thought and encourage new perspectives.
Lambton-based artist, Darla Fisher-Odjig will share in her own voice how colonization has impacted her life and art making. The artist will discuss her paintings and poetry and how drawing upon the 7 Grandfathers and cultural connectedness, such as The Red Road and Blood Memory, allow her to share the elegance and masterfulness of her First Nations heritage.
Archiving Memories with Nicole Aszalos
Free / In-person event at JNAAG Registration required
Free / In-person event at JNAAG Registration required
discussion at the Sarnia Library
This workshop will give you a comprehensive introduction to relief printing with linoleum. Some of the offshoots that we will encounter include: rainbow rolls and colour blending.
Showcasing King’s brilliant wit and trademark wordplay, The Back of the Turtle is a funny, smart, sometimes confounding, and altogether unforgettable tale of betrayal, salvation and the resilience of life.
A collaboration between Sarnia Library and JNAAG Free / Registration required Email: library.publicservices@county-lambton.on.ca2:00PMBookClub
3:00PM Exhibit tour at JNAAG
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We have collaborated with Sarnia Library to create a book club for art lovers and avid readers alike. Book selections are made to connect to themes in current exhibitions to enrich conversations at the library and JNAAG.
11:00AM-3:00PM
Snacks and supplies included
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Printmaking Part 1: Introduction
Saturday, October 22, 2022
Art & Books Club
Saturday, November 19, 2022
The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King
$100 (+tax) / Members discount available
11:00AM-3:00PM
For program and event registration, call 519-336-8127 ext. 3231, or visit jnaag.ca.
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This is an intermediate relief printing technique for making mulit-colour prints from one linoleum block. Students will learn to edition as well as create serials from their images.
Printmaking is an artform using transference of an image as its mode of expression. It has a rich tradition that continues to this day. The JNAAG has acquired two mini printing presses that participants in the two-part workshop series will learn to use. These workshops will give you insights into various aspects of printmaking. No prior experience is necessary.
Pick up a copy of The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King at Sarnia Library. Then join other readers at the Sarnia Library for a discussion on the book. After the book discussion, the group will move down the road to the JNAAG for a tour of the current exhibitions.
The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King
Adult Program Adult Program
Snacks and supplies included
When Gabriel Quinn, a brilliant scientist, abandons his laboratory and returns to Smoke River Reserve, where his mother and sister lived, he finds that almost everyone in the community has disappeared. Even the sea turtles are gone, poisoned by an environmental disaster known as The Ruin.
Keep an eye out for Art & Books for Young Adults in our next program cycle.
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Spaces limited / Registration required
Printmaking Part 2: Reduction Linocut
Art Pod
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Select Thursdays / 6:30 – 7:30PM / Early arrival welcome @ 6:00PM
Care partner required to provide support
For program and event registration, call 519-336-8127 ext. 3231, or visit jnaag.ca.
Participants should be able to follow one-step directions
Make a Zine / September 29 Build Your Own Avatar / October 27 Lyrical Painting / November 24
Participants can visit the gallery website in advance for a social story, and more details about each class, instructor and materials used in each workshop. For program and event registration, call 519-336-8127 ext. 3231, or visit jnaag.ca.
10–14Ages
Tours:
Attention teachers! Did you know that JNAAG offers a two-hour art experience which includes a gallery tour and an art making activity? We love working with teachers to create experiences tailored to meet learning goals for your students.
Specifically designed for youth with special needs and an interest in fine arts, at Art Pod you have the chance to explore self-expression through art.
Join the Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery’s Education Team and Discover the Group of Seven. Students will participate in a conversational presentation focused on a historic Algonquin landscape painted by Group of Seven member Lawren Harris. The experience is intended to help students nurture their art-looking skills. The Education Team will guide students through a mindfulness exercise to awaken their senses, offer tips for how to look at art and introduce art-related vocabulary. Curiosity and interaction are Availableencouraged.intwolearning
For more information and to register contact Matt Sanders: Matt.Sanders@lkdsb.net
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Youth Program
For fee schedule and booking contact Rayneata Dunn: 519-336-8127 ext. 3231 | Rayneata.Dunn@county-lambton.on.ca
School Programs
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streams for grades 3-5 and 6-8, this program has been designed for in classroom as well as remote-learning environments. Focus on foundational colour theory, watercolour techniques and collage making inspired by the Group of Seven through this live complement to JNAAG’s asynchronous Virtual Learning Unit 2.
Virtual DiscoverLearning:theGroup of Seven
Free / Give what you can / Registration required
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A specialized art program for people with dementia and their care partner The JNAAG develops exclusive exhibition tours and hands on art activities in partnership with the Alzheimer Society of Sarnia-Lambton. No experience required. Learn more or register through Brooke Salenbien at (519) 332-4444 ext. 234 www.alzheimer.ca/sarnialambton jobPATH jobPATH is an Employment Discovery Workshop for work-ready people who have a disability. jobPATH not only helps people with a disability find a job but specializes in coaching people on how to keep their job and remain successful at work. To register, or for more information: info@employment-transitions.com.
Inspirational Moments
For program and event registration, call 519-336-8127 ext. 3231, or visit jnaag.ca. In the Community & Holiday Program In the Community 19For program and event registration, call 519-336-8127 ext. 3231, or visit jnaag.ca.
Fridays The gallery is open until 9:00PM on First Fridays this September, October, November, and December. Weekend Walkabout Food Painting Saturday September 3 / On Lochiel Street / 1:00–3:00PM Creative Cars Sunday September 4 / On Lochiel Street / 11:30AM–1:30PM Where are Hue? September 3 & 4 / Inside the gallery / 11:00AM–4:00PM SWIFF This November 3–5 JNAAG is partnering with SWIFF. Visit swiff.ca for more details. Holiday ProgramCozyCandle Making Saturday, December 3 & Saturday, December 17 Treats1:00-3:00PMandhot chocolate will be provided Just in time for the holiday season! Dip in with your family and friends and learn an original candle making technique. AgesAll
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